[528] A letter of the Duke of Wellington’s on national defence, and urging an increase in the army, was published without his consent in the _Morning Chronicle_ of January 4, 1848. [529] Lord John Russell, Prime Minister in 1846-1852. [530] Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary. [531] On the appointment of Dr. Hampden (1794-1868) to the Bishopric of Hereford. [532] Hampden’s Bampton Lectures were considered heretical. Merewether was the High-Church candidate. [533] Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873); he became Bishop of Oxford, 1845. [534] _Daughters_ was published anonymously in 1847. [535] Elizabeth Fry, the Prison Reformer (1780-1845). Her _Journal_ and _Letters_ were published in 1847. [536] Ella Drummond, her niece. [537] Under-Secretary for the Home Department. [538] William Vansittart married, 1839, Emily Lindsay Anstruther. She died 1844. He married, December 1847, Henrietta Humphreys; she died in 1852. He married, thirdly, Mélanie, daughter of Sir R. Jenkins. [539] Her doctor, Sir C. Locock. [540] Lord Ashburton married Ann Louisa Bingham of Philadelphia in 1798. She died December 5, 1848. [541] W. Bingham Baring (2nd Lord Ashburton) married Lady Harriet Montagu. [542] Right Hon. Charles Buller, who died in 1848. [543] Francis, Duke of Bedford. He was brother to Lord John Russell. [544] Sir George Cornewall Lewis’s house, on the borders of Wales. [545] Lady Godolphin, Miss Eden’s sister, died in 1847. [546] Mr. Henry Baring died April 13, 1848. Mrs. H. Baring was Cecilia Anne, daughter of Vice-Admiral William Windham. [547] Macaulay published the first and second volumes of his _History_ in 1848. [548] Probably _Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon_. It was published in 1852. [549] Sir Guy Campbell died January 26, 1849. [550] Lord Auckland’s death on January 1, 1849, was described by Charles Greville in his _Memoirs_: “The past year, which has been so fertile in public misfortunes and private sorrows, wound up its dismal catalogue with a great and unexpected calamity--the death of Auckland, who went to the Grange [Lord Ashburton] in perfect health on Friday, but was struck down by a fit of apoplexy on his return from shooting on Saturday, and died early Monday morning.... His loss to the Government is irreparable, and to his family it is unspeakably great. To his sisters he was a husband, a brother, and a friend combined in one, and to them it is a bereavement full of sadness, almost amounting to despair.” [551] Mary Dulcebella Drummond married, October 17, 1850, Richard Wellesley. [552] Maurice Drummond married Lord John Russell’s step-daughter, Hon. Adelaide Lister, January 12, 1847. [553] Lady Georgiana Howard married in 1822 George James Welbore, 1st Lord Dover. [554] Lady Caroline Lascelles, whose husband, the Rt. Hon. W. Lascelles, died 1851. [555] Diana, married 1851 the Hon. Edward Coke. [556] Lucia, married in 1851 Lord Bagot. [557] Granville, killed at sea, 1851.